Julia Gillard's ex-partner Tim Mathieson facing sexual assault conviction
Julia Gillard's ex-partner faces a criminal conviction after admitting he sexually assaulted a woman weeks before the former prime minister publicly announced their split.
Tim Mathieson, 66, will face a plea hearing in Melbourne Magistrates Court in October.
Mathieson, who faced court by videolink under the name Raymond Mathieson on Thursday, admits sucking on a woman's nipple without her consent in East Brunswick in March last year.
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Raymond Timothy Mathieson leaves his lawyer's office in Melbourne on July 27 - the day his barrister told Melbourne Magistrates Court that Mathieson would plead guilty to one sexual assault charge. AAP Image/Joel Carrett
Two weeks later Gillard told the Adelaide Advertiser the couple had split more than a year earlier.
She and Mathieson, a former hairdresser, were together for a decade and lived at the Lodge and Kirribilli House throughout Gillard's three-year term as prime minister.
Mathieson's lawyer Brad Penno had asked in a previous hearing for his client to be granted diversion out of the justice system, which would allow him to avoid a criminal conviction.
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Tim Mathieson with then-prime minister Julia Gillard. The couple lived at the Lodge and Kirribilli House throughout Gillard's three-year term as prime minister. Getty
On Thursday, Penno said that had been taken off the table and asked for an adjournment for a pre-sentence hearing.
Mathieson will return to court on October 19.
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).
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